Stories of Friendships
September - October 2020
The secret Olivia told me
by N. Joy

Olivia shares a secret with her best friend who then lets it slip to someone else, and soon everyone knows about Olivia's secret
Dough boys
by Paula Chase

A companion to So Done finds the complex friendship between Simp and Rollie tested by the pressures of basketball, auditions, middle school and their growing involvement in the local drug ring. 
The voting booth
by Brandy Colbert

Preparing to vote for the first time, Marva is indignant when she observes a fellow teen turned away from the voting booth and teams up with him to fight a corrupt system and search for a missing cat. By the award-winning author of Finding Yvonne. 
Making their voices heard : the inspiring friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
by Vivian Kirkfield

Reveals the story of the lesser-known friendship between Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, describing how they supported each other while pursuing dreams that were limited by race and gender barriers.
The other side
by Jacqueline Woodson

Aware of the fence that separates the black part of town from the white part, Clover is curious when a white girl suddenly comes around and sits on the fence day after day, so she decides to take the initiative and make a friend despite the consequences of breaking the strict rules that everyone lives by.
 
 
Featured Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
 
Son of Baltimore and a librarian father, Ta-Nehisi Coates burst into national consciousness through his journalism work as an Atlantic magazine national correspondent. Over the course of ten years he covered controversial subjects such as reparations, mass incarceration, #BlackLivesMatter activism and Civil War history. He is most known for National Book Award winner Between the World and Me, a didactic memoir directed to his adolescent son. He also wrote We Were Eight Years In Power, an essay collection that serves as a reflection of the Barack Obama presidency. He recently released his first novel, The Water Dancer, which depicts an enslaved man who uses memory as a conduit to activate his superpower of transporting himself across long distances by folding land and time like fabric. With his polyvalent talent as memoirist, essayist and novelist, Coates is definitely one of the greatest writers of his generation.
 
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